Preschool Prank

Imagine dropping your almost 4 year old daughter off at school one morning to discover she has no teachers.

The children are running around chaotically on the playground with little supervision.

The director blocks your entrance into the classroom. You ask the director if everything is okay? She replies, "Everything is under control. There was a disagreement and the teachers have decided to leave. I have taken over the classroom until we figure out a solution."

You see through the classroom window, the teachers are crying and shaking visibly, packing their personal belongings.

You call the other parents to learn more. No one knows anything. You ask the other teachers. A few say they are unhappy and some intend to leave at the end of the school year too. Most say nothing.

You meet privately with the director for an hour to raise your concerns and help find a solution. You offer to assist in the classroom, but are rebuffed.

You go home, calm down and realize that it's April - only two months of school left anyway. Don't over react. These things happen in life and it's best to teach your children how to cope. She's going to a new school next year anyway.

The next day, you drop both kids off at preschool. The teachers from your 2 year old's class have been moved to replace the missing teachers from the 4 year old's class. So who's teaching the 2 year olds? You're told the younger kids will have substitute teachers for the rest of the year.

Realizing it's probably best to consider leaving the school, you call around to other schools. There are so many schools. You cannot visit each one, so you begin to interview them over the phone. When you ask one particular administrator about the teacher turnover rate, she states flatly, "We're not at liberty to discuss that." You hang up and move onto the next school.

Just when I thought life was in balance....

Is someone trying to pull a prank on me?